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Erin Grand
Education
M.S., Data Science
Columbia University
New York, NY
2016 - 2014
Tech Experience
Senior Data Scientist
Uncommon Schools
New York, NY
2024 - 2016
- Produced high-quality analytics work around student and staff data, including prediction models around student state exams, student enrollment, and staff attrition/recruitment. Excellent communication with stakeholders throughout the analysis projects.
- Daily use of R and SQL to interact with data stored in AWS Redshift. Produced clean working data sets with dbt and git.
- Lead 6+ group trainings on the R programming language for 10+ coworkers, created git training and policies to introduce git to the team
- Automated annual state exam reporting using R saving 10+ hours of processing time
Data Scientist
Crisis Text Line
New York, NY
2016 - 2015
- Built and shipped a new volunteer application that 7600 applicants used. Increased the completion rate from 40% to 90%
- Identified key drop-off points for trainees. Produced cohort analyses of key metrics. Identified unique differences among cohorts to provide trainers with new solutions
- Identified counselor churn as the most significant organizational priority and developed automated tracking, reporting, and analysis of key metric
Data Librarian / Software Engineer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
2016 - 2014
- Reformatted science data images to be compatible with WMS tile servers. Images are a part of the educational Science on a Sphere and NASA Earth and Space Observatory programs.
- Designed traveling Hubble Space Telescope exhibits’ new iPad kiosks using HTML, JavaScript, and Kiosk Pro
Research Experience
Research Assistant
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
2014 - 2011
- Researched the formation mechanism of molecular pillars such as the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation
- Used python and IDL to compare observations of high-density gas to model predictions. Visualized, analyzed, and presented on the results
- Ran the observations at CARMA observatory for 2+ weeks yearly
Summer Intern
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
2011 - 2010
- Performed analysis in perl on raw data from the Swift observatory to produce a three-colored ultraviolet image of the Andromeda galaxy
- Image has been featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day twice since publication
- Developed bash shell scripts to manually set the aspect correction of images from the Swift satellite allowing the data to be used in further research